For years, Belgian anti-poaching pilot Anthony Caere flew over Virunga's forests and saw nothing but rebels below. No animals. Just armed insurgents in one of ...

JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...

The area is beginning to look like a "forested savannah" again, and there have been sightings of buffalo, kob, warthogs, topi ...

In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise. The news had international ...

A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj convicted 11 poachers for killing a tusker in Similipal Tiger Reserve. They were sentenced to ...

A court has sentenced 11 individuals to four years in prison for poaching a male Asiatic elephant in Similipal Tiger Reserve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illegal animal parts including those that belonged to protected species were confiscated this month in Fresno and Madera counties, ...

Elephant and rhino poachers in South Africa can run, but they can’t hide from drones. An imaging system created by a team led by Elizabeth Bondi ’16 (imaging science) automatically detects illegal ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

In the spring of 2013, poachers looking for elephant ivory took advantage of the chaos of a civil war raging in the Central African Republic, and massacred 26 rare forest elephants at a special place ...